Former Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Arthur Levitt has some sound advice to prevent state and municipal pension funds from collapse, the threat of which in San Diego prompted officials to engage in securities fraud. In a speech to public pension trustees in New York, Levitt called for repeal of the 30-year-old Tower amendment, a federal law that shields state and local governments from SEC scrutiny in their accounting standards and bond disclosures.

Moving San Diego's winter homeless shelter to Tailgate Park is a win not only for residents of East Village and their councilman, Kevin Faulconer. His City Council colleagues as well win honorable mention for their rare agreement to replace an unwise vote with a wiser one.

Privacy rights? Women accused of prostitution who have been arrested and have posed for mug shots have privacy rights? So say some opponents of the El Cajon Police Department's new policy of publishing on its Web site the mug shots of convicted prostitutes and information about their cases.

Should nearly 65,000 San Diegans have gathered in the ashen haze of Mission Valley last Sunday afternoon to watch a football game? The record fires that had threatened more than a half-million of us earlier in the week were still burning, though safely distant from Qualcomm Stadium.